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It was blessedly cool and bright today, and I walked over to campus, where I haven’t been in weeks. I...

A new correspondent writes: Here at Way Up North CC, our little gym just died, and we're renovating it from...

A new correspondent writes: I'm currently ABD in an English Department at an R1 school, working on my dissertation and...

Murray Sperber writes in Declining by Degrees that an “Academic Arms Race” began in the post-Sputnik boom-era for higher ed...

A grad school aspirant writes (edited for length): Applying for grad school is pretty different than applying for undergrad, and...

Not to get all sentimental about it, but one of the highest purposes of a free press is to expose...

At my cc, some terms simply don't get used. Some are the predictable grad school-ish buzzwords: “counterhegemonic,” say, or “problematic...

A devoted reader writes to ask, “What should I be reading this summer?” I too like reading lists. They’re the...